Networking Infrastructure for Native American Education -AIHEC Consortium

本项目旨在通过视频和数据互联实现教育目的。教育目的包括为视频和数据网络制定新的联网和用户服务培训方案，改进由印第安人控制的K-12和高等教育机构对SMET科目的教学，以及改善美洲印第安人在保健领域的教育。这个应用程序的总体概念是最大化现有的SMET课程和项目的影响。这将通过在AlHEC的视频和数据网络中分配提供节目的责任来实现。由于组成美洲印第安人高等教育联盟的29所院校分布广泛，规模一般较小，而且长期资金不足，因此一直强调资源共享。各院校在SMET课程水平和目前可用的网络水平方面存在很大差异。这种通过网络进行共享的兴趣导致五年前成立了AIHEC电信项目，以便利用技术使有限的资源发挥更大的作用。从那时起，人们对建立计算机互联也产生了浓厚的兴趣。大约有一半的学院有这种联系。这个项目需要一年的资金，用于开发提供短期培训的项目，比如使用互联网、使用交互式视频和网络技术支持。在技术领域，它还要求在提供用户支持的领域开发副学士学位。第一年的第二个发展领域是保健服务领域。AIHEC将与印第安人保健服务一起确定最需要的地区，并在这些地区制定分配方案。大学需要一些东西来使这些操作成为可能。首先，它需要在SMET领域有高水平学术准备的教师，也需要有更好准备的学生。因此，有一个组件为大学和K-12教师提供分布式研究生教育。在基础设施的另一方面，许多大学还没有联网。出于这个原因，蒙大拿州的所有部落学院都将与他们设计的一个系统联系起来，以提供最大的管理能力。最后，AIHEC电信网络将通过向三个地点的卫星提供上行链路加以利用，这三个地点分别位于明尼苏达州、蒙大拿州和北达科他州。这些上行链接将能够向所有29所学院提供教学；7所大学将能够自主设计课程。

Belcourt 95-26134 This project is designed to achieve educational purposes through video and data interconnections. The educational purposes involve the development of new networking and user service training programs for both video and data networks, improvement of the teaching of SMET subjects in K-12 and postsecondary institutions that are controlled by Indians, and the improvement of education for American Indians in the health fields. The general concept of this application is to maximize the impact that already existing SMET coursework and programs have. This will be done by distributing the responsibility for offering programs throughout the AlHEC's video and data networks. Because the 29 institutions that compose the American Indian Higher Education Consortium are widespread, generally small, and chronically underfunded, there has always been an emphasis on sharing resources. There is wide variance among the institutions with regard to levels of SMET curriculum and the level of networking currently available. This interest in sharing through networking led to the formation of the AIHEC telecommunication project five years ago, in order to make use of technology to make limited resources go further. Since that time, there has also been a good deal of interest in the establishment of computer interconnectivity. Approximately 1/2 of the colleges have such connectivity. This project calls for funding for one year for developing programs that provide both short-term training in such things as using the Internet, using Interactive video, and technical support for networks. In the technology area, it also calls for the development of Associate's degrees in areas that provide user support. A second area of development in this first year is the Health Services area. AIHEC will identify areas of greatest need with the Indian Health Service and develop distributed programs in these areas. The colleges need certain things to make these operations possible. First, it needs faculty with u pgraded academic preparation in SMET areas and it needs students who are better prepared. Thus, there is a component that provides for distributed graduate education for both college and K-12 teachers. On the other side of infrastructure, many colleges do not have connectivity yet. For this reason, all the Tribal Colleges in Montana will be linked with a system that they have designed to provide maximum capability for uperading. Finally, the AIHEC Telecommunications Network will be utilized by providing uplinks to satellites at three sites, one each in Minnesota, Montana, and North Dakota. These uplinks will be capable of feeding instruction to all 29 colleges; 7 colleges will be able to originate programming.